Challenges in Brazil Deserve U.S. Support

As I watch the Olympics prepare to kick off, I remember the last time I visit Rio de Janeiro. It was the day that the Brazilian senate voted to suspend President Dilma Rousseff and open an impeachment judgment. That was also the day that an all-male, all-white Cabinet took office in substitution of the center-left (lately more center than left) government of Rousseff. The Brazilian media will insist that the Olympics have nothing to do with the political crisis, but I believe that such connection is now beyond reasonable doubt. The process of using kickbacks from large construction projects to finance political campaigns was widespread practice. So far, only the left has been blamed for it, but the evidence points to all. Worse yet, the results of all this construction frenzy is a city more unequal, not less.
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